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Yale professor blames Islamist attacks against Hindu temples in Bangladesh on Narendra Modi, backtracks after outrage: All you need to know
https://www.opindia.com/2021/04/yale-pr ... ndra-modi/

Edison BOE Member Apologizes For Anti-Muslim Facebook Posts
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Mohin Patel apologized to Edison's Muslim community for sharing "controversial and hurtful" Facebook posts back in 2016.
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"Back then, I used to stir up occasional debates on controversial topics. But my friends and mentors in the Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, and other communities have over the years shown me more constructive ways to engage in dialogues, and I thank them for it," Patel said.

"I have learned that the Quran, much like my own holy books, preaches forgiveness. And I humbly ask for your forgiveness."
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US Capitol attack: Black radical Islamist shot dead after killing a cop, injuring another, wanted to target the US govt
https://www.opindia.com/2021/04/black-r ... s-capitol/
On Friday at around 1 pm, a 25-year-old Islamist named Noah Green rammed his car into the security barrier at the Senate side of the US Capitol complex in Washington DC. After ramming his car at the vehicle access point along Constitution Avenue, the man stepped out from his Navy Sedan car and attacked two police officers with a knife, killing one and critically injuring the other.
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darshan wrote:NJ crowd continues to disappoint with no balls to fight.

Edison BOE Member Apologizes For Anti-Muslim Facebook Posts
https://patch.com/new-jersey/edison-met ... book-posts
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Mohin Patel apologized to Edison's Muslim community for sharing "controversial and hurtful" Facebook posts back in 2016.
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"Back then, I used to stir up occasional debates on controversial topics. But my friends and mentors in the Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, and other communities have over the years shown me more constructive ways to engage in dialogues, and I thank them for it," Patel said.

"I have learned that the Quran, much like my own holy books, preaches forgiveness. And I humbly ask for your forgiveness."
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darshan wrote:I'm aware of NJ situation and my target wasn't Patel as much as Hindus in NJ. Hindus in NJ don't have balls to come out and support him.

venkat_kv wrote:

darshan wrote:I'm aware of NJ situation and my target wasn't Patel as much as Hindus in NJ. Hindus in NJ don't have balls to come out and support him.

why will the hindus explicitly come out and fight in this instance, there is not much to gain and a whole lot of fighting for a facebook post. This fighting/taking a stand can be done when battle lines are drawn and you have something important to fight for.
People will not endanger their career over fighting for some council mans facebook post that doesn't do anthing for their daily work. Let Hindus get organised in the first place before we can accuse them of anything else here .

darshan wrote:

venkat_kv wrote: why will the hindus explicitly come out and fight in this instance, there is not much to gain and a whole lot of fighting for a facebook post. This fighting/taking a stand can be done when battle lines are drawn and you have something important to fight for.
People will not endanger their career over fighting for some council mans facebook post that doesn't do anthing for their daily work. Let Hindus get organised in the first place before we can accuse them of anything else here .

I'm scratching my head with your response but you can continue with the thought process. There are lot of Hindus that have no tie in with careers. They run small businesses. Do you seriously think that the majority of people who came and voted for this dude are career people? I practically never expect anything from career people. Certainly not to take them with to fight. Career people can't even figure out how to keep control of HoA and keep it Hindu in NJ area in 99% Hindu community.

And I'm a career person and have no qualms about going after anything islamic or pakistani even when my employers are selling to islamic countries.

Support is support. When you start thinking about it's not worth it for a Facebook post then that poor chap may as well regret his decision to join Education board. I suppose that you have probably never opened up textbooks in NJ to see what they teach to Hindu kids.

Influential civil rights leader told Times Radio there is 'pattern of racism' in UK

He rejected the findings of the recent UK report into race and ethnic disparities

Rev Jackson said Britain had a 'responsbility to face up to racism and change it'

Comments come after report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities

Their report found there was no evidence of instiutionalised racism in Britain

But the report has been criticised by high-profile campaigners and politicians




Civil rights leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson has today weighed into the UK's debate on race, by saying that Britain is the 'mother of racism'.

The influential American, 79, said Britain must face up to its role in slavery, as he flatly rejected the findings of the recent report into race and racism in the UK.

It comes after the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, chaired by Tony Sewell, said it could find no conclusive evidence of institutionalised racism in Britain.

In its report, the commission also declared that the UK was a model to the world of a successful multi-ethnic society - while accepting that 'overt' prejudice still exists.

However, Rev Jackson, who worked closely with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, said there was a 'pattern of racism' in the UK.

Speaking to Times Radio, he said: 'Britain has a certain responsibility to face up to racism and change it.

Civil rights leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson (pictured today speaking to Times Radio) has today weighed into the UK's debate on race, by saying that Britain is the 'mother of racism'

Civil rights leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson (pictured today speaking to Times Radio) has today weighed into the UK's debate on race, by saying that Britain is the 'mother of racism'

For more than 200 hundred years Britain was at the very centre of the transatlantic slave trade (pictured: A drawing showing a slave trader holding a cane as slaves are forced to work) It is believed that English sea captain Sir John Hawkins led the first slaving expedition around 1562 under the commission of Queen Elizabeth I

For more than 200 hundred years Britain was at the very centre of the transatlantic slave trade (pictured: A drawing showing a slave trader holding a cane as slaves are forced to work) It is believed that English sea captain Sir John Hawkins led the first slaving expedition around 1562 under the commission of Queen Elizabeth I

'I've traveled across Britain and clearly there's a pattern of racism.'

He also claimed 'blacks cannot... be part of the Crown' when asked if he thought the Royal Family was racist - in the wake of Meghan Markle's bombshell claims made in her interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The Duchess of Sussex claimed an unnamed member of the royal family had asked what colour skin Archie would be when she was pregnant with Prince Harry's first child.

Reverand Jackson refused to say if he thought the royal family were racist, but instead said the marriage between Harry and Meghan showed 'change is in the air'.

He added: 'In a democracy, everybody has the chance to be everything.

'(There is) no superior race and no inferior race. All of us have royal blood. We're all God's children. Everybody matters.'

Rev Jackson is one of the most influential civil rights campaigners of his generation and was once close with Martin Luther King Jr.

The baptist minister was by the side of the civil rights campaigner when he was assassinated in 1968.

Alongside his civil rights work, Rev Jackson has also been involved in the creation of charities and twice ran to become the presidential candidate for the Democrats in the 1980s.

His criticism comes amid a strong debate over the findings of the report, which were published last week.

The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, set up by Boris Johnson in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, concluded that although Britain is not yet a 'post-racial society', its success should be a model for white-majority countries.

Chairman Dr Sewell said the UK had progressed into a 'successful multi-ethnic and multicultural community' which was a 'beacon to the rest of Europe and the world'.

He warned ministers must also consider the needs of the white working class, saying his report had uncovered how 'stuck' some groups were.

Dr Sewell later insisted he was not denying the existence of racism - but railed against people deploying the charge of institutional racism 'willy-nilly'.

But the report has faced a chorus of criticism from campaigners and politicians, including Baroness Doreen Lawrence.

Baroness Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in 1993 in a racially motivated attack in south-east London, said the authors of the report are 'not in touch with reality'.

Speaking at a public event organised by De Montfort University Leicester's Stephen Lawrence Research Centre on Wednesday, she said: 'When I first heard about the report my first thought was it has pushed [the fight against] racism back 20 years or more.

'I think if you were to speak to somebody whose employer speaks to them in a certain way, where do you go with that now?

'If a person is up for promotion and has been denied that, where does he go with that now?

'You know, all these things we've been working for and showing that structural racism exists - we talk about the pandemic when you look at how many of our people have died, all the nurses, the doctors, the frontline staff, of Covid, and to have this report denying that those people have suffered... they are denying that the likes of my son was murdered through racism and the fact that it took 18 years to get justice for him. The report is denying all those issues.

'Those people who marched for Black Lives Matter? It's denying all of that. The George Floyd stuff? It's denied all of that.

'So those who sit behind this report (saying) that racism doesn't exist or it no longer exists need to speak to the young boys who are stopped and searched constantly on the street. They need to speak to those young people.'

Baroness Lawrence continued: 'They (the report authors) are not in touch with reality basically.

'That's what it boils down to. When you are privileged you do not have those experiences.

Yagnasri wrote:Racism may be there in the US. But I refuse to believe it is there to the extent that it is being claimed by the BLM people, SJWs and PC BS gangs. Critical Race theory rubbish is going wild all over the place, which will end the US economy and systems in the long run.

Pratyush wrote:The George Floyd death trial result will be an interesting event for race relations in United States.

From what I have been able to follow from India, it would appear that the officer in question. On the basis of evidence and prosecution witness statements might not be convicted for murder.

USA: In a boost for free speech, Supreme Court Justice suggests Big Tech may not have the right to regulate content on their platforms


USA: In a boost for free speech, Supreme Court Justice suggests Big Tech may not have the right to regulate content on their platforms

Legal journalists believe that this order from Justice Thomas invites the U.S. Congress to ban social media companies from regulating or censoring their own content, and instead be transformed into "common carriers" or "places of public accommodation", as illustrated by Justice Thomas.

6 April, 2021
OpIndia Staff

USA: in a boost for Free Speech, Supreme Court Justice suggests Big Tech may not have the right to regulate content on their platforms

The United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in a non-binding order on April 5th, wrote regarding the problem of Big Tech platforms censoring opinions, most famously censoring the then President of the United States Donald Trump himself.

In his order today, Thomas wrote, “If part of the problem is private, concentrated control over online content and platforms available to the public, then part of the solution may be found in doctrines that limit the right of a private company to exclude. Historically, at least two legal doctrines limited a company’s right to exclude.”

Justice Thomas then drew a parallel between Big Tech social media platforms and certain businesses called “common carriers”, writing, “First, our legal system and its British predecessor have long subjected certain businesses, known as common carriers, to special regulations, including a general requirement to serve all comers.”

Justice Thomas also clarified that the Supreme Court believes regulations akin to those placed on “common carriers”, even for companies not historically considered so, maybe justified when, “a business, by circumstances and its nature, . . . rise[s] from private to be of public concern.”

According to Justice Thomas, there is a “clear historical precedent for regulating transportation and communications networks in a similar manner as traditional common carriers.” In the case of Telegraphs, they “resemble[d] railroad companies and other common carriers,” and were “bound to serve all customers alike, without discrimination,” writes Justice Thomas

Justice Thomas further wrote, “Even if digital platforms are not close enough to common carriers, legislatures might still be able to treat digital platforms like places of public accommodation.”

“Once again, a doctrine, such as public accommodation, that reduces the power of a platform to unilaterally remove a government account might strengthen the argument that an account is truly government-controlled and creates a public forum.”, Justice Thomas adds.

Legal journalists believe that this order from Justice Thomas invites the U.S. Congress to ban social media companies from regulating or censoring their own content, and instead be transformed into “common carriers” or “places of public accommodation”, as illustrated by Justice Thomas.

This opinion by Justice Thomas is also seen as an endorsement of the conservative view on Free Speech and the 1st Amendment, that these social media companies violate the spirit of Free Speech and the 1st Amendment through their content regulation, which can often devolve into outright censorship. Recently, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that censoring the New York Post’s story regarding Hunter Biden by not letting it spread through Twitter and blocking all links to it, was a “mistake”.

Yagnasri wrote:Racism may be there in the US. But I refuse to believe it is there to the extent that it is being claimed by the BLM people, SJWs and PC BS gangs. Critical Race theory rubbish is going wild all over the place, which will end the US economy and systems in the long run.

In an unusual move, the United States has announced that it conducted patrols in the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) this week, without seeking any prior consent, to assert its `navigational right and freedoms’.

While such patrols are common in the South China Sea where the US Navy consistently challenges China’s claims on maritime boundaries, the public announcement of similar patrols in Indian waters has come as a surprise.

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The main opposition party of Seychelles (United Seychelles), says it will continue to oppose India's planned military base in Assomption island in the archipelago.

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While such patrols are common in the South China Sea where the US Navy consistently challenges China’s claims on maritime boundaries, the public announcement of similar patrols in Indian waters has come as a surprise.

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... aign=cppst

What signal are they sending here?

Mort Walker wrote: The "infrastructure" bill getting passed with $2.3T, with only a fraction toward actual infrastructure,are public.

Paul wrote:

In an unusual move, the United States has announced that it conducted patrols in the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) this week, without seeking any prior consent, to assert its `navigational right and freedoms’.

While such patrols are common in the South China Sea where the US Navy consistently challenges China’s claims on maritime boundaries, the public announcement of similar patrols in Indian waters has come as a surprise.

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... aign=cppst

What signal are they sending here?

Mort Walker wrote:Only $621 billion is for actual infrastructure.

In India, social media and mobile messaging platforms have become a key force behind viral falsehoods, such as rumors that quickly spread among some Hindus regarding Muslims’ alleged slaughter of cows or posses-sion of beef, which led to the “cow vigilante” lynching of Muslims.

Some government regimes seek to use religious and ethnic themes in other countries to mobilize foreign popular support for their foreign policy objec-tives. India’s attempts to export Hindu nationalism, Turkey’s effort to mobi-lize the Turkish diaspora in Europe to amplify Turkey’s influence, and Russia’s support of Russian Orthodox minori-ties outside Russia demonstrate ways in which leaders exploit identities to achieve foreign policy goals.

Mort Walker wrote:There was a nice graphic in the print edition of WSJ last week that had the “Infrastructure” bill breakdown. Secretary of Transportation Alfred E. Neumann seems to indicate that elder care is part of infrastructure, which may be leading to confusion for some of the enlightened on this forum.

kit wrote:https://www.thequint.com/news/india/don ... lakshadwep

nvishal wrote:

kit wrote:https://www.thequint.com/news/india/don ... lakshadwep

The US has already revealed in the past that it won't let India impose a blockade in the Indian ocean, in case of a major indo-china war.

The blockade is a tool that prevents China from engaging in major mischief with india. The American policy makers see it an hindrance that prevents an india-china war.

m_saini wrote:Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World

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In India, social media and mobile messaging platforms have become a key force behind viral falsehoods, such as rumors that quickly spread among some Hindus regarding Muslims’ alleged slaughter of cows or posses-sion of beef, which led to the “cow vigilante” lynching of Muslims.

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Some government regimes seek to use religious and ethnic themes in other countries to mobilize foreign popular support for their foreign policy objec-tives. India’s attempts to export Hindu nationalism, Turkey’s effort to mobi-lize the Turkish diaspora in Europe to amplify Turkey’s influence, and Russia’s support of Russian Orthodox minori-ties outside Russia demonstrate ways in which leaders exploit identities to achieve foreign policy goals.

No mention of muslim genocide by our north-northeast neighbours, the chinni "Confucius" institutues or the jebus soul-harvesters. Who needs enemies when you have "friends" like US